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MWA Edgar: Best Novel
It’s about a month until the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards banquet on April 26, so that gives me a few weeks to read (or re-read) the five nominees. Of the group, I’ve already read Bluebird...
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Nominee #2: A Rising Man
After my last post, moaning about historical… the next nominee for the MWA Edgar for Best Novel is Abir Mukherjee’s A Rising Man, set in 1919 Calcutta. The heat, grime, and colonial culture where the...
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Bluebird, Bluebird up for Best Novel
The third book up for the Mystery Writers of America Edgar award for Best Novel is Attica Locke’s Bluebird Bluebird. As with the two nominees I’ve reviewed so far, Bluebird is the first book in a...
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Kerr’s Prussian Blue up next
Prussian Blue. It’s 528 pages of fictional Berlin detective Bernie Gunther interacting with Nazis in (framing device) 1956 and (very meaty main plot) 1939… and I have to say, it’s the most interesting...
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The Stranger Diaries 4th Edgar Nom
If you love reading – and you clearly do, if you are reading this blog! – you’ll be drawn in immediately to Elly Griffiths‘ The Stranger Diaries. The book’s protagonist is Clare Cassidy, a divorced...
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My Lovely Wife last up for Edgar…
There’s just three days to go until the Mystery Writers of America announce the Edgar award winners for 2020. I’m excited to be back reviewing and ranking the Literary Lunchbox Edgars! I’m just...
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Child sleuths=superior detectiving.
Wow! What is it with novelists who get nominated for the MWA Best Novel on their first time out? That was the case for Richard Osman with his Thursday Murder Club, and it’s also the case for Deepa...
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I have a history of reading, reviewing and rating the Mystery Writers of America nominees for Best Novel (and sometimes other categories, depending on the time available). The Edgars and I don’t...
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NYT Bestseller The Maid Takes Top Spot
Second up in the MWA Edgar nominees for Best Novel is Nita Prose’s The Maid. Plot overview: Molly Gray is a maid at the splendid Regency Grand Hotel, where she delights in returning the guest rooms...
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Like a Sister: MWA Best Novel Nominee
Author Kellye Garrett has the life experience to write knowledgably about the entertainment industry and the writing credentials to back it up, with two previous award-winning books (which I fully...
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